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Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate facade lie wh ...Show more
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Anchee Min's new novel reveals the extraordinary life of Pearl S Buck. In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionar ...Show more
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where her only friendships were perilous and intense. Both candid and touching, this compelling memoir documents ...Show more
The Cooked Seed by Anchee Min
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1994, Anchee Min published Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. It became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, Min returns to give us the next chapter, as she moves from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of t ...Show more
The Cooked Seed by Anchee Min
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1994, Anchee Min published Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. It became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, Anchee Min returns to give us the next chapter, as she moves from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden boun ...Show more
The Last Empress by Anchee Min
$27.99 NZD
$28.99 (3% off)
Category: Fiction
At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling ...Show more
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